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8 Questions To Ask Before Hiring A Web Design Company

web design and development

Trusting a web design company with your vision is a big decision for your brand. You need to rest assured that your project is in good hands. When meeting with a web design company, it helps to come prepared... keep reading about 8 Questions To Ask Before Hiring A Web Design Company

4 Elements of a Successful Website Redesign

As a website owner, you may have come to the decision that your website needs a redesign. But how do you decide what to change and to what extent, as well as what else might need to change - or not.

A good place to start is imagining a website... keep reading about 4 Elements of a Successful Website Redesign

Sonnier & Castle Sets Up Shop and Goes Responsive

Sonnier & Castle Shopping Website

Over the past few months, Avatar New York has been working with Sonnier & Castle, one of New York City's premier catering companies, to design a responsive website and ecommerce shop. The new responsive website and shop will serve as the main online platform... keep reading about Sonnier & Castle Sets Up Shop and Goes Responsive

Avatar New York Launches New Educational Fitness Website

Education Fitness Case Study

Over the summer of this year, we overhauled an educational fitness website. The project focused on improving and extending fitness education tools to kids in two ways.

Education Fitness App Homepage

Fitness Education... keep reading about Avatar New York Launches New Educational Fitness Website

Avatar New York let's NYC Tourists Locate Buses in Real-Time

OpentourNY.com responsive website image

As a followup to the recent launch of OpenTourNY.com, the responsive website designed for New York City's premier sightseeing bus tour company, Avatar New York added real-time bus location capabilities. With the addition of this functionality... keep reading about Avatar New York let's NYC Tourists Locate Buses in Real-Time

Why Small Is Good

We relaunched our website earlier this year after rebranding Avatar New York. In the process, we had some fun and learned a few things about ourselves and our company, we know will translate into ever better work for our clients. Here are a few highlights.

Know Thyself
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The 5 Keys to Successfully Launching a Music Education Website

In mid February, Avatar New York launched MusicFirst, the first part of a larger multi-year project to build a Learning Management System (LMS) that seamlessly integrates music technology into classrooms worldwide. Avatar New York designed and built the project in sevearl phases, each timed... keep reading about The 5 Keys to Successfully Launching a Music Education Website

4 Simple UX Best Practices for Scrolling Websites

The web's continued move to become a more beautiful and engaging place has been bolstered by big, immersive, scrolling pages on desktop version websites. Part of this trend includes adapting and rightfully discarding some website design conventions. However, there remain a few simple UX best practices that can continue to... keep reading about 4 Simple UX Best Practices for Scrolling Websites

5 Steps We Took to Improve Jouer Cosmetics Online

To kickoff the New Year, Jouer Cosmetic launched a new ecommerce website - jouercosmetics.com. Avatar New York has been working with Jouer for several months building their new website as well as restructuring their back office process and integrating a seamless ordering and fulfillment workflow that requires as... keep reading about 5 Steps We Took to Improve Jouer Cosmetics Online

Building great websites is its own reward. But we like awards too.

Avatar New York takes great pride in the websites we design. Our team's diligence and professionalism ensures our websites achieve the highest standard in user experience, ease of use and performance. Rewards we enjoy the most are enthusiastic accolades from happy clients and the knowledge that... keep reading about Building great websites is its own reward. But we like awards too.

Jimmy Jazz and Avatar's web design collaboration pays off

Jimmy Jazz, a top retailer of urban wear, has been a client of Avatar since 2008. We built their first ecommerce site and have worked with them ongoing providing website design and development, high-traffic, PCI compliant hosting, and tech support.

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The Workshop is Open for Business

The Workshop

There are big things brewing over at Avatar these days.  One of the projects we have been developing this fall, was The Workshop.... keep reading about The Workshop is Open for Business

How website design helped Moguldom find its purpose

Moguldom Media Group is an global leader in the digital media realm focused on women, multicultural, and emerging markets. Moguldom wanted a website that connected with their clients and continued to effectively market their innovative advertising products.

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It can cost a fortune to make a website look cheap

It’s a phone call I receive more than I should. A business owner stuck in the middle of a stalled website design project, having wasted months of time and effort not to mention several thousands of dollars, with little to show for it in return – if lucky. The truly... keep reading about It can cost a fortune to make a website look cheap

Google and responsive design

Google wants Internet users to "experience the full richness of the web." Part of this experience is browsing the web on mobile devices. How about including whether a site uses a responsive design as part of a website's Pagerank, Google? Check.

It will no longer be sufficient to have a... keep reading about Google and responsive design